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The Who's Who of Zen BuddhismThu, 19 Feb 2015 15:23:18 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1Sachs, Kôun Stefanhttp://sweepingzen.com/stefan-koun-sachs-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/stefan-koun-sachs-bio/#commentsFri, 22 Jan 2010 05:47:22 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=5495This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database. *Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated. Bio in brief Authorizing ...

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/stefan-koun-sachs-bio/feed/0Sachter, Lawson Davidhttp://sweepingzen.com/lawson-sachter-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/lawson-sachter-bio/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 13:46:54 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1125This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database.*Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated. American Zen Teacher’s Association listing

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/lawson-sachter-bio/feed/0Saint, Deborahhttp://sweepingzen.com/saint-deborah/
http://sweepingzen.com/saint-deborah/#commentsFri, 04 Mar 2011 11:05:53 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=24156This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database.*Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated.

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/saint-deborah/feed/0Samu Sunimhttp://sweepingzen.com/samu-sunim-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/samu-sunim-bio/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 18:58:05 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1133Samu Sunim (born 1941) is a Korean Zen teacher and founder of the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom, a non-celibate order of Zen Buddhism. A dharma heir of Weolha Sunim, Samu has taught primarily in the United States and Canada over the years, founding Zen centers in Toronto, New York, Ann Arbor, Chicago and also ...

]]>Samu Sunim (born 1941) is a Korean Zen teacher and founder of the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom, a non-celibate order of Zen Buddhism. A dharma heir of Weolha Sunim, Samu has taught primarily in the United States and Canada over the years, founding Zen centers in Toronto, New York, Ann Arbor, Chicago and also Mexico City. Born in Korea in 1941, Samu Sunim was orphaned at a young age and lived on the streets. After several years living like this, he was ordained a novice monk at Pomo-Sah in Pusan, Korea in 1956. Later, he moved to Japan to avoid conscription and in 1967 arrived in the United States. There he founded the Zen Lotus Society in New York (known today as the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom).

In early 1968 he moved to Montreal and, four years later, to Toronto. In 1977 he had a vision of his deceased teacher Seolbong Sunim, who had come to him to give Dharma transmission. In 1983 he received formal Dharma transmission from Weolha Sunim, master at Tongdo-Sah monastery. One of Samu Sunim’s better-known students is Geri Larkin, who has written several books. Sunim has given two students permission to teach Zen: Haju Linda Jean Murray and Toan José Castelão Cámara.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/samu-sunim-bio/feed/0Samy, AMAhttp://sweepingzen.com/ama-samy-sj-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/ama-samy-sj-bio/#commentsTue, 22 Dec 2009 17:37:28 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=148AMA Samy, SJ (born 1936), born as Arul Maria Arokiasamy, is a Jesuit Sanbo-Kyodan Zen teacher from India, born to impoverished Indian parents in 1936 Burma, where as a boy he had some contact with Burmese Buddhism and Buddhist monks. He was raised for the most part in India by his maternal grandfather, an adherent of ...

]]>AMA Samy, SJ (born 1936), born as Arul Maria Arokiasamy, is a Jesuit Sanbo-Kyodan Zen teacher from India, born to impoverished Indian parents in 1936 Burma, where as a boy he had some contact with Burmese Buddhism and Buddhist monks. He was raised for the most part in India by his maternal grandfather, an adherent of Islam. After school Samy joined the Jesuit Order.

After becoming a Jesuit priest, he was left with a sense of not being fully fulfilled. He began visiting Hindu ashrams and Buddhist meditation centers; for a time he became a wandering beggar and became a village hermit, taken care of by people from the village.

Samy was ultimately drawn toward the Zen path most of all. Through the assistance of Fr. Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle he was able to go to Japan and study with Yamada Koun-roshi. He received Dharma transmission from Yamada Koun in 1982, granting him authorization to teach Zen to others. Samy considers himself grounded in both Christianity and Zen, and also continues to admire Hinduism. He spends some time in Europe each year to teach and is founder of Bodhi Zendo Zen Center in India.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/ama-samy-sj-bio/feed/0Sanderson, John Tesshinhttp://sweepingzen.com/john-tesshin-sanderson-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/john-tesshin-sanderson-bio/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 14:00:58 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1136John Tesshin Sanderson is a Sōtō Zen priest in the lineage of his late teacher Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi. Tesshin was first ordained in 1973 and later received Dharma transmission from Maezumi-roshi in 1991. He currently serves as spiritual director of the Centro Zen de México in Coyoacán, Mexico City, where he has served since 1987. ...

]]>John Tesshin Sanderson is a Sōtō Zen priest in the lineage of his late teacher Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi, Roshi. Tesshin was first ordained in 1973 and later received Dharma transmission from Maezumi-roshi in 1991. He currently serves as spiritual director of the Centro Zen de México in Coyoacán, Mexico City, where he has served since 1987. In 2001 Tesshin was invited to Spain to lead members of Centro Zen Jardín de Luz (Garden of Light Zen Center), where he continues to travel regularly offering sesshin and ango.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/john-tesshin-sanderson-bio/feed/0Sargent, Jihohttp://sweepingzen.com/sargent-jiho/
http://sweepingzen.com/sargent-jiho/#commentsThu, 11 Nov 2010 12:27:26 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=11999Rev. Jiho Sargent (1932—2009) was an American Sōtō Zen priest in Japan who led one of the only English speaking Zazen meetings in Tokyo for about 15 years from the end of the 1980’s at the temple in Tokyo were she was a priest (Taisoji). She became a priest late in life, at age 49, and was ...

]]>Rev. Jiho Sargent (1932—2009) was an American Sōtō Zen priest in Japan who led one of the only English speaking Zazen meetings in Tokyo for about 15 years from the end of the 1980’s at the temple in Tokyo were she was a priest (Taisoji). She became a priest late in life, at age 49, and was also one of the few Westerners to be trained in a fully Japanese way exclusively in Japan (primarily at the Toyama Ni-Sodo, one of the Soto school’s special training temples for women) and under her teacher (Rev. Zendo Matsunaga), and then remained in Japan as an ordinary “parish priest” at Taisoji involved in the more mundane, “day-to-day” duties of a Zen priest in Japan … a very unusual path for most foreign teachers. She also fought for the rights of female priests in the “man’s world” of Japanese Zen Buddhism.

She was the author of a book called “Asking About Zen” (also available in German, Spanish and some other languages) which was rather unusual for a Zen book, and can best be described as a “nuts and bolts,” “tell it like it is” “bringing it down to earth” guide to many subjects often misunderstood by the great majority of Zen practitioners – especially Westerners.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/sargent-jiho/feed/0Sasaki, Kyozan Joshuhttp://sweepingzen.com/kyozan-joshu-sasaki/
http://sweepingzen.com/kyozan-joshu-sasaki/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 19:05:24 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1138Joshu Kyozan Denkyo-Shitsu Sasaki (born April 1, 1907) is a Japanese roshi of Rinzai Zen of the Myoshinji line and one of only a few in the Rinzai tradition actively teaching in the United States. Sasaki moved from Japan to the United States on July 21, 1962, where he arrived in Los Angeles, California. This ...

]]>Joshu Kyozan Denkyo-Shitsu Sasaki (born April 1, 1907) is a Japanese roshi of Rinzai Zen of the Myoshinji line and one of only a few in the Rinzai tradition actively teaching in the United States. Sasaki moved from Japan to the United States on July 21, 1962, where he arrived in Los Angeles, California. This is celebrated each year at Rinzai-ji,—his head temple. A Dharma heir of the late Joten Soko Miura 承天宗杲 (1871—1958)—a former abbot of Myoshinji and dharma heir of Banryo Zenso 盤龍禅礎 (1848—1935)—Sasaki is known as something of a traditionalist regarding his approach to teaching. Having taught in the United States for nearly forty-seven years and currently age 102 (a centenarian), Sasaki spends approximately half of the year at his Mount Baldy Zen Center and the other half at Rinzai-Ji (formerly Cimarron Zen Center) in Los Angeles. Perhaps one of the oldest Zen teachers in the world, one of Sasaki’s more well-known students is the poet and singer Leonard Cohen (who spent several years living in residence at Mount Baldy Zen Center).

A common question posed to Sasaki revolves around his naming of a successor; to date he has not done so. In an interview with Ralph Blumenthal of The New York Times, Sasaki has said, “There are things that I cannot announce. There are things that are joyful to announce but I haven’t yet decided about my successor. If someone would turn up who can totally abandon their ego and that can manifest that zero state that is neither subject nor object and that is a complete unification of plus and minus then I think I would make them a successor. However such a person has not yet appeared, a person that knows that true democracy is a manifestation of true love and that the manifestation of true love is the manifestation of the state that is neither subject not object. If such a person did, then I could finally take a break and be happy about that.”

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/kyozan-joshu-sasaki/feed/0Sasaki, Ruth Fuller Everetthttp://sweepingzen.com/ruth-fuller-everett-sasaki-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/ruth-fuller-everett-sasaki-bio/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 14:07:19 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1142This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database. *Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated. Bibliography The Zen Koan: ...

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/ruth-fuller-everett-sasaki-bio/feed/0Sasaki, Sokei-an Shigetsuhttp://sweepingzen.com/sokei-an-shigetsu-sasaki-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/sokei-an-shigetsu-sasaki-bio/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 14:10:31 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1145Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (1882—1945) was a Japanese-born Rinzai Zen master who made the United States his home in the early 20th Century. A Dharma heir of Sokatsu Shaku, in 1930 he established The Buddhist Society of America in New York City. Today the society is known as The First Zen Institute of America, the name ...

]]>Sokei-an Shigetsu Sasaki (1882—1945) was a Japanese-born Rinzai Zen master who made the United States his home in the early 20th Century. A Dharma heir of Sokatsu Shaku, in 1930 he established The Buddhist Society of America in New York City. Today the society is known as The First Zen Institute of America, the name change occurring in 1945 following his death. Sokei-an was one of the first Zen masters to make the United States his home and undertake the teaching of Zen to Westerners, though his particular style is different from what one might expect in modern Zen Centers in the West. Sokei-an taught primarily through teisho and sanzen, and under-emphasized the practice of zazen because he believed it would prove too difficult for his Western followers.

Interned during the Second World War for approximately 1 year from 1942 to 1943, Sokei-an suffered from declining health during his final years. While interned he suffered from high blood pressure and was stricken by frequent strokes. Estranged from his first wife by this time, he divorced her in 1944 and soon after married Ruth Fuller Everett–who became Ruth Fuller Sasaki. Ruth was once the mother-in-law of Alan Watts, who briefly studied Zen with Sokei-an in 1938. Following his death, Ruth played an integral role in helping to ensure the survival of the center which he had founded. He died on May 17, 1945.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/sokei-an-shigetsu-sasaki-bio/feed/0Sato, Kyûun Migakuhttp://sweepingzen.com/kyuun-migaku-sato-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/kyuun-migaku-sato-bio/#commentsFri, 22 Jan 2010 05:48:55 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=5499This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database. *Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated.

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/kyuun-migaku-sato-bio/feed/0Sattizahn, Rinso Edhttp://sweepingzen.com/sattizahn-rinso-ed/
http://sweepingzen.com/sattizahn-rinso-ed/#commentsWed, 09 May 2012 14:54:19 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=52101This biography is not currently listed at the website, but you can add it to the database.Thank you!

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]]>http://sweepingzen.com/sattizahn-rinso-ed/feed/0Saunders, Anne Seisenhttp://sweepingzen.com/anne-seisen-saunders-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/anne-seisen-saunders-bio/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 14:12:46 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1149Anne Seisen Saunders, Roshi is Abbot and head teacher of Sweetwater Zen Center Capital City, CA. Seisen has been practicing and teaching Zen Buddhism for nearly 20 years. Seisen is a student of the late Taizan Maezumi Roshi and a Dharma successor of Bernie Tetsugen Glassman, Roshi, cofounder of the Greyston Mandala and the Zen ...

Seisen lived at the Zen Center of Los Angeles for 15 years, and worked on ZCLA’s administrative staff. She served for four years as the co-abbot of Zen Mountain Center, a traditional monastery and practice center in Idyllwild, California.

The founding of Sweetwater Zen Center marked Seisen’s return to San Diego. Before coming to Zen practice, Seisen attended UC Berkeley and then later went to UCSD, where she worked as a biochemist. Establishing SWZC is the unfolding of her vision for an urban residential Zen practice community.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/anne-seisen-saunders-bio/feed/0Sawaki, Kodohttp://sweepingzen.com/kodo-sawaki-bio/
http://sweepingzen.com/kodo-sawaki-bio/#commentsWed, 23 Dec 2009 14:18:16 +0000http://touchpointe.net/sweepingzen/?p=1151Kodo Kikigaki Sawaki (沢木 興道; June 16, 1880—December 21, 1965) roshi, born Tada Saikichi, was one of the best-known Japanese Soto Zen masters and scholars of the 20th Century. He traveled extensively throughout Japan practicing zazen with others, earning him the nickname “homeless Kodo.” Sawaki was an important teacher to both Taisen Deshimaru and Kobun ...

Kodo Kikigaki Sawaki (沢木 興道; June 16, 1880—December 21, 1965) roshi, born Tada Saikichi, was one of the best-known Japanese Soto Zen masters and scholars of the 20th Century. He traveled extensively throughout Japan practicing zazen with others, earning him the nickname “homeless Kodo.” Sawaki was an important teacher to both Taisen Deshimaru and Kobun Chino Otogawa, and also Kosho Uchiyama, one of his dharma successors. To many Westerners who have heard of him, Sawaki roshi is remembered as the founder of a small lay training center in Kyoto called Antai-ji. There Westerners like author Arthur Braverman practiced under Kosho Uchiyama roshi during sojourns in Japan. Sawaki roshi strongly advocated for the revitalization of zazen as the central practice of Soto Zen.

Kodo Sawaki was born as Tada Saikichi in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture, Japan on June 16, 1880. At age five his mother died and ate age eight, so did his father. After living briefly with an adoptive uncle who also died, he was taken in by a professional gambler and his wife, an ex-prostitute. Sawaki was put to work guarding gambling dens and doing cleanup work in brothels. Unhappy with the direction of his young life, Sawaki began secretly visiting a nearby temple. There he was advised by an abbot that he should consider taking up the study and practice of Zen.

While Sawaki roshi generally enjoyed a favorable public image, in 1997 his image came under question when he was portrayed as a Japanese nationalist who both supported and fought in the Russo-Japanese war by Dr. Brian Victoria in his book, Zen At War.

]]>http://sweepingzen.com/kodo-sawaki-bio/feed/0Scemama, Hosetsu Laurehttp://sweepingzen.com/scemama-hosetsu-laure/
http://sweepingzen.com/scemama-hosetsu-laure/#commentsSat, 19 Feb 2011 15:56:07 +0000http://sweepingzen.com/?p=21755This biography is currently not listed on Sweeping Zen. Feel free to add it to the database. *Note: If you are not the subject or a representative, please write the biography in your own words. Copying materials from another website without express permission will result in the entry not being updated.

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